horseshoe bat

noun

1. any of numerous large-eared Old World insectivorous bats, mostly of the genus Rhinolophus, with a fleshy growth around the nostrils, used in echolocation: family Rhinolophidae

Example Sentences

A kobuvirus that infected civets in the Huanan market was closely related to a virus detected in animals sold in Sichuan and Guangxi provinces, which are closer to the territory of horseshoe bats and pangolins.

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They included a horseshoe bat called Rhinolophus mabuensis and a dwarf musk shrew which scientists are still in the process of naming and describing.

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But the civets proved to be intermediate hosts, and its natural host was later identified as horseshoe bats.

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It remains the most likely explanation for how a coronavirus circulating in horseshoe bats in China came to infect humans in the first place.

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Britain's population of greater horseshoe bats was, until recently, restricted to south and west Wales and south-west England.

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